“The “Can you hear me now?” guy may be endorsing Sprint instead of Verizon these days. But Verizon is the one that’s getting a much better reception from Wall Street.

Can that last if Verizon winds up scooping up troubled Yahoo though?

 Verizon stock has surged 17% this year. That makes it the third best performer in the Dow, only slightly behind UnitedHealth and Exxon Mobil.

Verizon has done better than wireless rivals Sprint and T-Mobile  as well as cable kingComcast. It is slightly lagging that of its former parent AT&T though.

Why are investors so enamored with Verizon? The big reason is that the company pays a juicy dividend — which yields 4.2%.

That makes “Big Red” (as well as Ma Bell, which yields 4.7%) attractive to conservative investors worried about a sluggish global economy and a possible Brexit in Europe who crave a higher yield than what you can get from government bonds.

The 10-Year U.S. Treasury has a rate of just 1.68%. Yields in Germany recently dipped below zero, joining Japan and Switzerland in the negative rate club.

So it’s understandable why investors desperate for any sort of income would like Verizon. But that’s not the only thing the company has going for it.

Verizon recently settled a labor dispute with striking landline workers. That should allay some fears investors had about the possibility that Verizon would fall behind in new customer installations for its FiOS TV and phone service.

But the damage may already be done. Verizon’s CEO and CFO both warned that results for the second quarter could be hurt by the strike. Analysts responded by cutting their earnings forecasts for the quarter and full year in the past month.

That’s a bad sign considering that Verizon isn’t the most dynamic of companies to begin with. Earnings are only expected to increase by about 3% a year, on average, for the next few years. Sales are barely budging at all as well.

And that’s why the possible Yahoo acquisition could be a problem for Verizon.”

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Ever wonder why companies are pushing so hard to outsource and move services outside the business location ? Some say that these moves are meant to decrease costs… this may be so, however in many cases it makes sense to move the data off site.

Think about centralized computing as a reallocation of resources closer to the core or backbone of the internet. The closer your data and centralized computing is to the internet, the faster the speeds of throughput and the lesser the amount of delay in computing and data transfer from ANY location. The idea is to push the computing away from “edge” sites on the network and provide these services from the backbone allowing for greater flexibility. Imagine a world where all Ip Centric services are delivered by the data center at lightning fast speeds to any location via the internet ! Voice, video, data, IM, Presence, chat… Any service developed and delivered via IP is able to be utilized with minimal hardware on the remote site. Even VPN can be delivered from the data center to a remote user allowing smart devices to serve remote employees and offer a full suite of services to communicate with. In the event that the IT staff desires to offer offsite backup a copy can be maintained easier from data center to data center via fiber to another data center on the fiber map. The costs of services once the data lives on the backbone is decreased by moving to the core or backbone.

Data center tactics are alive and well let us know if we can help.

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Unplanned data center outages are expensive, and the cost of downtime is rising, according to a new study. The average cost per minute of unplanned downtime is now $7,900, up a staggering 41 percent from $5,600 per minute in 2010, according to a survey from the Ponemon Institute, which was sponsored by Emerson Network Power. The two organizations first partnered in 2010 to calculate costs associated with downtime.

Downtime is getting more expensive as data centers become more valuable to their operators. The increase is driven by the increased value of the business operations being supported by the data center, the survey indicated.

“Given the fact that today’s data centers support more critical, interdependent devices and IT systems than ever before, most would expect a rise in the cost of an unplanned data center outage compared to 2010,” said Larry Ponemon, Ph.D., chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute. “However, the 41 percent increase was higher than expected. This increase in cost underscores the importance for organizations to make it a priority to minimize the risk of downtime that can potentially cost thousands of dollars per minute.”

Highlights of the study include:

• The average cost of data center downtime across industries was approximately $7,900 per minute. (A 41 percent increase from the $5,600 in 2010.)
• The average reported incident length was 86 minutes, resulting in average cost per incident of approximately $690,200. (In 2010 it was 97 minutes at approximately $505,500.)
• For a total data center outage, which had an average recovery time of 119 minutes, average costs were approximately $901,500. (In 2010, it was 134 minutes at about $680,700.)
• For a partial data center outage, which averaged 56 minutes in length, average costs were approximately $350,400. (In 2010, it was 59 minutes at approximately $258,000.)
• The majority of survey respondents reported having experienced an unplanned data center outage in the past 24 months (91 percent). This is a slight decrease from the 95 percent of respondents in the 2010 study who reported unplanned outages.

The study looked at 67 data centers with a minimum size of 2,500 square feet across varying industry segments.  Comprehensive analysis of direct, indirect, and opportunity costs from data center outages was performed. The study measured damage to mission-critical data, the impact of downtime on organizational productivity, damage to equipment, legal and regulatory repercussions, and lost confidence and trust among key stakeholders.

The study reveals that even more significant costs are incurred by organizations with revenue models that depend on the data center’s ability to deliver IT and networking services to customers. The highest cost of a single event in the study was more than $1.7 million. These industries saw a slight decrease compared to 2010 costs, while organizations that traditionally have been less dependent saw a significant increase.

The industries with the largest increases were:

• Hospitality sector (129 percent)
• Public sector (116 percent)
• Transportation (108 percent)
• Media organizations (104 percent)

Downtime is EXPENSIVE and costs organizations more and more every year. Even if you are a smaller organization you can imagine, or have felt the hit of what downtime can do to your company.

Are you prepared to prevent this exuberant cost to your organization?

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datacenterknowledge.com 12-3-13

On June 24^th, Frontier Communications filed an amicus brief on behalf of AT&T in AT&T’s legal battle with the city of Louisville, Kentucky. At issue is what is known as a ‘One Touch Make Ready’ ordinance passed by Louisville, which would allow competitors to install wires on utility poles owned by AT&T without prior approval. Louisville’s ordinance has been referred to as the “Google Fiber Ordinance,” because it is intended to speed Googlr Fiber’s ongoing deployment there.

The intent of ‘One Touch’ laws is to lower the cost of networks by reducing the need for duplicate work and multiple crews when line is hung on shared utility poles. Such laws have been compared to dig once policy that mandate laying fiber optic cables during road construction or similar projects.

AT&T  filed an attempt to overturn Louisville’s law in February, stating that the law oversteps the standard licensing deal it offers Google and other network operators for sharing utility poles. They argue that the authority to regulate pole attachment lies solely with the FCC and state public service regulators. Frontier’s brief supports this view, outlining nationwide ramifications including the potential complexity of mismatched local ordinances, and more fundamentally, the risk that ‘One Touch’ laws could increase service disruptions caused by third parties moving equipment.

But the lawsuit is also in line with ongoing efforts by legacy telecoms to block competition, including lobbying at the state level to prevent cities from building their broadband networks. Such tactics have contributed to Americans paying more for broadband access than the rest of the developed world, while generally getting less speed for their money.

Google Fiber has described the AT&T lawsuit as “an effort to block Louisville’s efforts to increase broadband and video competition.” Louisville’s mayor has vowed to fight the AT&T lawsuit, saying gigabit fiber is “too important to our city’s future” to be blocked.

Slowing Google’s rollout in Louisville in particular would immediately benefit AT&T. AT&T does not offer broadband service, much less the gigabit-speed connections promised by Google Fiber, in much of the city. Though it is planning such services, the fact that a national telecom company still isn’t offering business-critical data services in a major U.S. city in 2016 demonstrates why they’ve had to spend so much energy on legal and legislative defenses of their market share.

Meanwhile, Frontier’s interest in maintaining monopolistic moats became much larger following its TROUBLED TAKEOVER of former Verizon fiber-optic networks in California, Florida, and Texas earlier this year.

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fortune.com 6-2-16

You need to run your business in the cloud — where do you start?

Cloud computing is a disruptive phenomenon, with the potential to make IT organizations more responsive than ever. Cloud computing promises economic advantages, speed, agility, flexibility, infinite elasticity and innovation. How will you phase your organization into cloud computing?

Cloud computing forces you to wrestle with three key strategic, operational and people challenges:

Governance:

Cloud computing enables speed, agility and innovation. You need to move from the drawing board to deployment. Is your organization ready to adapt?

Cloud Computing Environments:

You need to choose a cloud computing environment that’s right for your organization. Should you consider private cloud, public cloud or a hybrid cloud solution? Which vendors play in this space? Will they be in business 12 months from now?

Security & Privacy:

If someone else is running your computers and software, you need strategies to stay secure. Your security policy depends on how many pieces you control – the more you own, the more you control. Are you ready to extend your enterprise security policy to the cloud?

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Forward-looking IT and search leaders are embracing new cloud options and recasting the search capability as a strategic resource.

 

 

Source, Gartner.com

Being a sports fan, but more importantly a father of three and with the ESPY’s tonight I am going back to the now Jimmy V. perseverance award and Stuart Scott’s moving acceptance speech.

On January 4th 2015 I as I do every morning I was watching Sportscenter and drinking coffee when Hannah Storm interrupted her broadcast and fighting back tears announced Stuart Scott had passed.

I felt almost odd as I fought back tears. I called one of my best friends Derick who was also already choked up by the news. I couldn’t make sense of how someone I had never met’s passing had taken my breath away and had me on the verge of tears till my 23 year old stopped by on her way to class.

She is much wiser (proud dad bragging moment.. Degree in Human Biology, starting the physicians assistant program) than I am and almost immediately pointed out that I had watched Stuart Scott for almost twenty years, nearly every morning. She told me some of the best mornings were watching the Top Ten on Sportscenter curled up next to me and chuckling at the “Stuisms” (Call him Butter.. He’s on a roll!) that Stuart used that we still use today. For the shared moments and the laughter that Stuart Scott brought to our mornings.

“Every day I am reminded that our life’s journey is really about the people who touch us. When I first heard that I was going to be honored with this reward, the very first thing that I did was, I was speechless, briefly. I’ve presented this award before. I mean, I’ve watched in awe as Kay Yow and Eric LeGrand and all these other great people [have] graced this stage and although intellectually, I get it. I’m a public figure, I have a public job, I’m battling cancer, hopefully I’m inspiring – at my gut level, I really didn’t think that I belonged with those great people. But I listened to what Jim Valvano said 21 years ago. The most poignant seven words ever uttered in any speech anywhere. “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up”. Those great people didn’t. Coach Valvano didn’t. So, to be honored with this, I now have a responsibility to also not ever give up.

I’m not special. I just listened to what the man said. I listened to all that he said, everything that he asked of us. And that’s to build the V Foundation. And – and let me tell you, man, it works. I’m talking tangible benefits. You saw me in that clinical trial. Now, here’s a thing about that. Coach Valvano’s words 21 years ago helping me and thousands of people like me, right now, direct benefits, that’s why all of this, why we’re here tonight, that’s why it’s so important. I also realized something else recently. You heard me kind of allude to it in the piece. I said “I’m not losing. I’m still here, I’m fighting. I’m not losing.” But I’ve gotta amend that. When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.”

So, live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight then lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you. That’s also very, very important. I can’t do this “don’t give up” thing all by myself. I’ve got thousands of people on Twitter and on the streets who encourage me. I’ve got these amazingly wonderful people at ESPN. I’ve got corporate executives, my bosses, this is true – who would text message me. They said “hey, I heard you had chemotherapy today, you want me to stop by on the way home from work and pick you up something to eat and bring it to you?” Seriously? Who does that? Whose boss does that? My bosses do that. But even with all that the fight is still much more difficult than I even realized.

[Stuart Scott:] Source: LYBIO.net
What you didn’t see in the piece is what’s gone on probably the last ten days. I just got out of the hospital this past Friday. Seven day stay. Man, I crashed. I had liver complications. I had kidney failure. I had four surgeries in a span of seven days. I had tubes and wires running in and out of every part of my body. And guys, when I say every part of my body: every part of my body. As of Sunday, I didn’t even know if I’d make it here. I couldn’t fight. [applause] But doctors and nurses could. The people that I love and my friends and family, they could fight. My girlfriend, who slept on a very uncomfortable hospital cot by my side every night, she could fight. The people that I love did last week what they always do. They visited, they talked to me, they listened to me, they sat silent sometimes, they loved me. And that’s another one of the components of the V Foundation. This whole fight, this journey thing, is not a solo venture. This is something that requires support.

I called my big sister Susan a few days ago. Why? I needed to cry. It was that simple. And I know that I can call her, I can call my other sister Synthia, my brother Stephen, my mom and dad, and I can just cry. And those things are very important. I have one more necessity. Eh, it’s really two. Two very vibrant, intelligent, beautiful young ladies. The best thing I have ever done, the best thing I will ever do, is be a dad to Taelor and Sydni. (Yeah) [applause] It’s true. I can’t ever give up because I can’t leave my daughters. Yes, sometimes I embarrass them. Sometimes, they think I’m a tyrant. That’s a direct quote. There is an adjective that describes tyrant too, but I’m not going to go there. But Taelor and Sydni, I love you guys more than I will ever be able to express. You two are my heartbeat. I am standing on this stage here tonight because of you. (YEAH!) [applause]

My oldest daughter, Taelor, I wanted her to be here, but college sophomore, summer school, second semester’s starting this week. Baby girl, I love you, but you go do you. You go do that. My littlest angel is here. My fourteen-year-old. Sydni, come up here and give dad a hug, because I need one. [applause]

[Stuart Scott:] Source: LYBIO.net
I want to say thank you ESPN, thank you ESPYs, thank all of you. Have a great rest of your night and have a great rest of your life.”

Stuart Scott.. “Cooler than the other side of the Pillow”

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